Union garment.



J. E. BURKE.

UNION GARMENT. APPLICATION FILED JAN-24.1912.

1,152,484., PatentedSept. 7, 1915.

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COLUMBIA PLANOORAPH CO.,WASH|NOTON, D. C.

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ApplicationnledJanuary24,1912. Serial Nata-3,133.

To all whom it.mayc0ncem.'

' garments sometimes called combination or which said object unionsuits, the objectbeing to provide a garment of the class, set forthwhichshall have an opening extending from the, neck down the front,under the crotch and up the back to a point near the waistline, butwhich of said opening may be temporarily closed or retained inoverlapped relation to each other throughout their. entire length andthus prevent exposure of the person of the .wearer of said garment.

l/Vith this object in view, my invention consists in certain featuresconstruction and of novelty in the arrangement of parts by and certainother objects, which will hereinafter appeaiyare attained all as fullyset forth in the specification and particularly pointed out in theclaim.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a front elevation of a garmentembodying my invention, a portion of the front of said garment beingbroken. away to more clearly show the construction thereof. Fig. 2 is arear elevation of the garment shown in Fig.

1 with a portion thereof broken away and showing the crotch in'section.Fig. 3 is a detail front elevation of the garment illustrated in Figs. 1and 2 showing the lower part opened. Fig. 1 1s a v ew similar to Fig. 3illustrating a modified form of my invention.

, ing leg portions 8 and 9.; 10*and 11 con-- Like numerals refer to likepartsthrouglr 3 outthe several views of the drawings In the drawings, 6isvthe front and 7 the rear of the bodyof an under garment havstituteedges of an opening in said garment formed during the constructionthereof and extend from the neck down the front into the inner seamsthence upwardly at the back to preferably near the waistline. A gussetor flap 13 is secured to the edge 11 from a point 14 at the hack of saidgarment upwardly a point 12,

a point 18 'point12 at the rear 7 of said garment, thence downwardlyalong most point 19 of said opening in the inner leg seam of the leg t)and of the leg portions 8 and 9,

(see Figs. 1, .3 and 4).

UNION eagaivrnn'r.

Specification of Letters Patent;

erably substantially above the crotch of said garment; second flap orgusset 17 is secured along the edges of said openings from on the edge10, upwardly, to the the edge 11 to the lowersub stantially oppo the leg8, thence said 'garmentto a site to the point 15' of upwardly at thefront of point 20 whichis preferably substantially 1s so constructed orformed that. the edges the same distance above the crotch as. thepoint16onthe opposlte edgeof said openwhen the tan-ant is closeduwfiap's' 13 and 17 areadapted to overlap each other for I relation toeach other adjacent to the crotch and front portions of said garmentbeing hereinafter described.

A facing or button stay 22 is secured .to one of the edges preferably 10from the neck thereof downwardly to the point 16 which is the junctureof said edge with the edge of the flap 13, thence along the edge of saidflap to the point 23, which is preferably slightly beyond and at therear of the crotch of said garment. To the opposite edge 11 or along themargin thereof is secured a fac ing 24: which extends from the neck ofsaid garment downwardly to the point 20 which is the intersection ofsaid edge with the flap 17, thence along to a point 25, said facingbeingpreferably coextensive with said button stay and adapted to be securedto saidbutton stay by detachable means, preferably tonholes 27 on'saidbutton stay and facing respectively,; the lowermost button 28 of saidseries of buttons'being located at the. front and at one side of thecrotch of said garment which is formed by said flaps button 28 and thebuttonhole 28, it will be seenthat said flaps 13 and 17 will be firmlyretained in their overlapped relation and alongsaid edge to thepoint12,'thence downwardly along the edge 10 into said inner .legseamsto;a p.oint-15, thence upwardly along, said edge 10' and terminating at a"point 16 thereon, said point 16 being pref- By the use of theconsisting of'a series of buttons 26 and but- I 1 5 manently stretched-5and thus provide "all the. advan- ,tages attained byagarrnent having aper? 7 closed crotch, but in addition rprow 7 v viding'a garment whichmay.beope'nai, if 1 so desired,from saidneck down the front I ,to thepoints 1 L'and'l 8 at the rear of said garment.

1i} 7 Beferringinowft Fig; 10 and 11 are [the edges of a garment similarinfconstrucftion to; the garmentjshown in Fig. 8, 'and'13 and 17; areflaps-identical in construction.

with the fiaps13 and-17 illustrated in Fig.

FA button stay 29 feXtends v-from the neck of said garment downwardlyalongthe edge 7 V '10"j t o and beyond the point1'6' to a point 30 on'said edge 10, while to the opposite a, edgealong "the'margin 'thereof'isa facing 31 -extending fdownwardly along, the edge 11 to the point whichisjthe juncture of said {edge 11 with the edgefof the, flap 17 thenceialon'g thej'edg'e of said flap and terminating at the point 32, whichis preferablyibeyond 1 and; at the rear of theicrotch ofsaid gar- V mentformedbyith'e flap 1 7. The serieslof buttons 33,33 arepreferably'connected to said 'bu't'to'n'stay 29and engage a series of lbuttonholes 34,34: the facing 31, and

when said buttons engage said butt onholes said crotch will betemporarily closed.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire by LettersPatent to seoureis:

A union garment having an opening extending down the front to the rearand terminatingat a point in the back near the waistline, overlappingflaps substantially coextensive in area secured at one of their edgestoopposite sides ofsaid opening from said point inthe back to pointsat thefront substantially above the crotch, and means to detachably secure thefront edge of one of said flaps to themargin of the body portion of saidgarment" at the front thereof and to which the other of said flaps issecured, at points at one side of the crotch of said garment along oneinner leg seam thereof and at a substantial distance from the edge ofsaid other flap. v i

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing'witnesses,

JAMES E. BURKE.

Witnesses: V

WILLIAM W, BURKE,

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